Articles

  • Dawn, William C. “A Benchmark for Neutron Kinetics Methods in Hexagonal Geometry.” Nuclear Science and Engineering (199), 2024. DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2024.2396173

  • Dawn, William C., Gerardo Grandi, and Tamer Bahadir. “Development and Benchmarking of SIMULATE5-K-VVER.” Annals of Nuclear Energy (195), 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2023.110146

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “Solving the Neutron Transport Equation for Microreactor Modeling Using Unstructured Meshes and Exascale Computing Architectures.” Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2023. DOI: 10.1080/00295639.2023.2189510

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “A Multiphysics Simulation Suite for Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors.” Annals of Nuclear Energy (159), 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2021.108213

Conference Papers

  • Dawn, William C. “Peacock: A Monte Carlo Transport Code with Depletion for Reactor Modeling.” Proceedings of Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management (ANFM) 2025, 2025. Clearwater Beach, FL. Text.

  • Wemple, C. A., R. M. Ferrer, T. T. Simeonov, J. M. Hykes, W. C. Dawn, and J. D. Rhodes. “Nuclear Data Usage At Studsvik Scandpower and Future Needs from ENDF/B-IX.” Proeedings of Advances in Nculear Fuel Management (ANFM) 2025, 2025. Clearwater Beach, FL. Text.

  • Ferrer, Rodolfo, William C. Dawn, and Tamer Bahadir. “Verification of CMS5 for Higher Enrichment and High Burnup PWR Core Design.” Proceedings of Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management (ANFM) 2025, 2025. Clearwater Beach, FL. Text.

  • Dawn, William C. “Peacock: A Monte Carlo Code with Shared Memory Parallelism for Consumer-Grade Computing Architectures.” Proceedings of M&C 2025, 2025. Denver, CO. Text.

  • Dawn, William C., Charles Wemple, Joshua Hykes, Rodolfo M. Ferrer, and Joel Rhodes III. “Peacock: Development of a New Continuous Energy Monte Carlo Transport Code.” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. Volume 131. Nov. 2024. Text.

  • Dawn, William C., “Initial Validation of SIMULATE5-K and the CMS5 Reactor Modeling Suite with the SPERT-III Experiments” Proceedings of PHYSOR 2024, 2024. San Fransisco, CA. DOI: 10.13182/PHYSOR24-43302

  • Dawn, William C. and Tamer Bahadir. “Development and Benchmarking of Transient Nodal Code SIMULATE5-K Neutron Kinetics Solver for VVERs and Hexagonal Geometries.” Proceedings of M&C 2023, 2023. Niagara Falls, Ontario. Text.

  • Kiefer, Timothy M., William C. Dawn, Khaldoon Al-Dawood, and Scott Palmtag. “Control Rod Modeling in Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors.” Proceedings of PHYSOR 2022, 2022. Pittsburgh, PA. DOI: 10.13182/PHYSOR22-37649

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “Simplified Thermal Expansion Modeling for Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors.” Proceedings of M&C 2021, 2021. Raleigh, NC. DOI: 10.13182/M&C21-33702

  • Al-Dawood, Khaldoon A., William C. Dawn, and Scott Palmtag. “Multiphysics Simulation of Uranium-Nitride Fueled Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor” Proceedings of M&C 2021, 2021. Raleigh, NC. DOI: 10.13182/M&C21-33708

  • Palmtag, Scott, William C. Dawn, and Chase Lawing. “Fast Reactor Depletion Methods in LUPINE” Proceedings of M&C 2021, 2021. Raleigh, NC. DOI: 10.13182/M&C21-33880

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “A Multiphysics Simulation Suite for Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors.” Proceedings of PHYSOR, 2020. Cambridge, UK. EPJ Web Conf, 2021. DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202124706019

Technical Reports

  • Dawn, William C., Javier Ortensi, Mark D. DeHart, and Scott P. Palmtag. “Comparison of Generation of Higher-Order Neutron Scattering Cross Sections.” Idaho National Laboratory, 2020. INL/EXT-19-54899. Tech. Report. DOI: 10.2172/1593864

  • Dawn, William C. “An Analytic Benchmark for the Solution to the Isotopic Fission Spectrum Mixture Problem.” Idaho National Laboratory, 2020. INL/EXT-19-54998. Tech. Report. DOI: 10.2172/1593873

Dissertation and Thesis

  • Dawn, William C. “Multiphysics Modeling of Microreactors with Unstructured Mesh Neutron Transport and Exascale Computing Architectures.” North Carolina State University, 2022. Ph.D. Dissertation.

  • Dawn, William C. “Simulation of Fast Reactors with the Finite Element Method and Multiphysics Models.” North Carolina State University, 2019. M.S. Thesis.

Posters

  • Dawn, William C. and Scott Palmtag. “Multiphysics Modeling of Microreactors with Unstructured Mesh Neutron Transport and Exascale Computing Architectures.” NEDAC Poster Session (2022). Raleigh, NC. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29283.22567

Patents

  • “Intermixing Feedwater Sparger Nozzles and Methods for using the Same in Nuclear Reactors.” US10566097B2.

  • “Acoustic Flowmeters and Methods of Using Same.” US10650931B2.

  • “Systems and Methods for Airflow Control in Reactor Passive Decay Heat Removal.” US10937557B2.